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`My Experience with Ranil Wickramasingha`
By PBS Hemachandra, Lt. Commander, (Sri Lanka Navy)

[ During one of the meetings with Mr. Ranil Wickramasingha I told him that one of the terrorists apprehended on 14 April 1985 informed me that they were trained by R&AW of the Indian Government. Mr. Wickramasingha laughed at me. ]

(January 14, Melbourne) Please read my experience with Mr. Ranil Wickramasingha when he was the minister of education in Sri Lanka to prove how he looked after servicemen in the past.

One of Prabhakara`s body guards who surrendered to the army in Mullathive produced this picture of his ex leader.

Fleeing Schizo Prabha`s had left his computer in one of his bunkers.

Let My People Go In Peace
Sat, 2008-08-30 02:30
By Dr Noel Nadesan - Editor, Uthayam (Tamil Community News paper in Australia)

We are living in sad times where most Tamils are feeling desperate not knowing what to do next. Each day the situation of our people is getting worse as all our hopes are crumbling before our own eyes. Our people have gone through terrible times. Our people have suffered enough. They have gone through enough. Our people have faced the worst. When the Sri Lankan Army came our people faced severe hardships. When the Indians came it was no better, When the Tigers came .I don`t have to tell you what happened, Should we watch the suffering of our people without any hope of ending it?

Mugabe`s Zimbabwe Today: The Stranglehold of the Superpowers & the IMF in action: Lessons for Sri Lanka.

/By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D (Michigan State University), formerly of the Srilanka Administrativce Service/

Many of my friends and contacts have been surprised at my statement about President Mugabe, showing him as a victim of the Superpowers- how they have actually strangled him in my paper: /Zimbabwe`s Election Results The Double Standards of the Superpowers( _Asian Tribune_ 20/04/2008)/. I wrote:

Why the Liberation Tigers are not Liberation Fighters
by Dayan Jayatilleka

At its worst, a little learning can indeed be a dangerous thing, but at any time it can be exceedingly annoying. As Marx once expostulated `ignorance never helped anyone yet`. In recent days the Sri Lankan press has seen the most careless flinging about of analogies, with the LTTE being written of in the same paragraphs as the IRA, the ANC, Hezbollah, Hamas and Nepal`s Maoists. Either the Sri Lankan state or the LTTE is urged to adopt these situations/movements as a model. This is simply ridiculous because one cannot profitably compare apples and oranges, chalk and cheese. The LTTE, while certainly not unique, does not belong to the any of the categories that the earlier mentioned movements or struggles belong to.

By Wendell W. Solomons

The task of decoding the cypher reaches us Perhaps clues do exist in history?

Dictionaries tell us that the noun `Serendipity` was coined around 1754 by Horace Walpole. He did so after being impressed by a traditional story, `The Three Princes of Serendip.` In the latter story, three princes make unexpected, delightful discoveries.

`Serendip` might have been a name in long use somewhere. Such a clue comes to us from `A Concise History of Ceylon,` edited by C. W. Nicholas and S. Paranavitana. Their volume says, `Roman commerce with the East was revived by Constantine, and it is recorded that in the year 361 an embassy from Serendivi (Ceylon) was received by emperor Julian...` (p.9)

President MR shared his wisdom of 30 years of Sri Lankan Political game to the Sri Lankan cricketers who failed to bring the world cup home, beating the Australians in World cup 2007.

The Sri Lankan civil war is playing out in Toronto`s Tamil media ? and one local writer has the broken bones to prove it. Profiles in journalistic courage

by Meena Nallainathan

Speaking out: Namu Ponnambalam outside the Canada Kanthaswamy Temple, a Hindu temple in the east end of Toronto,which has been taken over by the Tamil Tigers. Ponnambalam has been verbally harassed but never physically harmed for his criticism of the Tigers.

Whilst the Sri Lankan cricket team honourably accepted their defeat at the 2007 world cup finals against Australia in Barbados last month , cricket fans of Sri Lanka continues to fight to preserve the spirit of the game , and fairness how it should be played, trying to bring attention of those who write rules of the game. During the last cricket world cup series attempts were made to humiliate Sri Lankan team with local politics which the team players do not have any part with other than being sportsmen from Sri Lanka with a slogan `Play by the Rules`. Sri Lankan cricket team always played by the rules so let`s ask the mighty Australian cricket team to play by the rules too.

Suhandan Kandasami, right, pours water onto the grave of his suicide sea Tiger rebel brother, Nagulaswaran Kandasami alias Major Suhandan, at a graveyard for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Kilinochchi, about 270 kilometers (169 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 20, 2007. Sri Lanka`s Tamil Tiger rebels, who have launched everything from suicide bombings to air raids, will unleash their `full capacity` if government forces try to take their northern strongholds, their political chief said. At least 65,000 people were killed before the 2002 cease-fire. Air raids, bus bombings, suicide attacks and jungle clashes have left an estimated 4,000 more dead since December 2005. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Why Action was Taken Against Tiger Connection in Paris
April 7th, 2007

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj

The well - planned and co-ordinated action in Paris by French authorities against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may have come as a surprise to many in Sri Lanka and abroad. It was however hardly a surprise to those observing the irrational, self - defeating conduct of the tigers within and outside Sri Lanka . An insular, arrogant hierarchy in a state of disconnect with reality is rapidly leading the movement downhill. This is becoming clearly visible now.

International Women`s Day
March 8th commemorates International Women`s Day, an occasion which is celebrated by women`s groups across the globe. This occasion is of great significance to women all over the world and has been honored by the United Nations and is also a designated holiday in numerous countries. Women from all continents across the world, who have often been divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, gather on this, their momentous Day and look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

LTTE bound to fail in any offensive under present leadership: Political Analyst

GOVERNMENT MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION:

By: Nadira Gunatilleke

The LTTE will launch a huge offensive against the Armed Forces, but when one considers the vast experience and knowledge of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Army Commander Sarath Fonseka the mission is bound to fail, well-known scholar and political analyst Dayan Jayatillake said.

Hulftsdorp Hill

1st March 1998

Mega show script in a state of flux

By Mudliyar

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Thilak Shantha-the confidant turned accomplice

The Prelude

It was a mega production, the epic that would make Cecil B. de Mille hide his head in shame. The finances ran into millions. The contents of the mega drama astounded the gullible and the rational and the foolish and the intelligent.